SkySafari

SkySafari

By Simulation Curriculum Corp.

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2017-12-22
  • Current Version: 7.6.5
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 827.66 MB
  • Developer: Simulation Curriculum Corp.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.1 or later.
Score: 4.71964
4.71964
From 17,424 Ratings

Description

SkySafari is a powerful planetarium that fits in your pocket, puts the universe at your fingertips, and is incredibly easy to use! Simply hold your device to the sky and quickly locate comets, planets, constellations, satellites, and millions of stars and deep sky objects. Use Augmented Reality (AR) mode to blend a simulated sky chart with a real view of your surroundings. Or toggle on OneSky to see what other observers are looking at right now. Packed with interactive information and rich graphics, discover why SkySafari is your perfect stargazing companion under the night sky. Here's what's new in version 7: + Complete support for iOS 17 and iPhone 15. Version 7 brings a new and immersive stargazing experience. + OneSky - allows you to see what other users are observing, in real time. This feature highlights objects in the sky chart and indicates with a number how many users are observing a particular object. + Sky Tonight - jump to the new Tonight section to see what’s visible in your sky tonight. Expanded information has been designed to help plan your night and includes Moon & Sun info, calendar curations, and the best positioned deep sky and solar system objects. + Orbit Mode - Lift off from the Earth and travel to the planets, moons and stars. + Guided Audio Tours - Listen to more than four hours of audio narration to learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens. + Galaxy View - Visualize the 3-D location of stars and deep sky objects in our Galaxy the Milky Way. + Pronounce - “Yoor-a- nus”, not “Your-anus”? The pronunciation guide in SkySafari will help you learn how to correctly pronounce the names of hundreds of celestial objects from different categories such as stars, constellations and planets. If you haven't used SkySafari before, here's what you can do with it: + Hold your device up, and SkySafari will find stars, constellations, planets, and more! The star chart updates automatically with your real time movements for the ultimate stargazing experience. + See an eclipse now, in the past or in the future! Simulate the night sky from anywhere on Earth many years in the past or in the future! Animate meteor showers, comet approaches, transits, conjunctions, and other celestial events with SkySafari’s Time Flow. + Locate the Sun, Moon, or Mars from our extensive database and track the arrow to be directed to their exact locations in the sky before you. See spectacular views of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and other planets! + Learn about the history, mythology, and science of the heavens! Browse from hundreds of object descriptions, astronomical photographs, and NASA spacecraft images in SkySafari. Explore tons of NASA Space Missions! + Stay up-to-date with Sky Calendar, for all major sky events every day – miss nothing! + 120,000 stars; over 200 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies; all major planets and moons, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites including the International Space Station (ISS). + Animated meteor showers with complete viewing information & spectacular graphics. + Night Vision – Preserves your eyesight after dark. + Apple Maps Integration – Choose your location from a built-in Maps view. + Horizon Panoramas – choose from beautiful built-in vistas, or customize your own! + Advanced Search – Find objects using properties other than their name. + Much more! + Plus unlock the SkySafari Premium Subscription to access amazing features: massive deep sky database, events, curated news and articles, connected stargazing features, light pollution map and more. For even more features, and telescope control check out SkySafari 7 Plus and SkySafari 7 Pro!

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Reviews

  • Misleading and Greedy

    1
    By YoullLoseTheBlues30
    I feel like I just paid admission for an amusement park and then on top of that every time I get to a ride, I have to pay another fee. Me being my naïve self decided to think that because I spent money on an app not only would I get higher quality, but wouldn’t be paywall behind another subscription service. One of the reasons why I picked this app over the other app was in the feature photos, it shows a quick overview of what is happening each night. I pay for the app, I searched for this really neat feature to see what’s happening, and then guess what? I see a premium badge. I say oh I guess this is for me since I’ve paid money already for this app. But no actually just because you paid five dollars I guess makes you a basic sucker, sorry customer. No if you want to be premium give us either $2 dollars every month or $20 a year. I’ve requested a refund. I don’t recommend this at all. Don’t advertise features that are behind a subscription with being explicit that the service is part of the subscription. It’s bad business practices.
  • Do not pay for this app

    2
    By Hardy jaff
    I just purchased this app and anything I’m zooming, it is all blackout. I’m using default settings, on regular iPhone. This is just a waste of money
  • Paid for functionality that isn’t present

    2
    By Señor ding d0ng
    Purchased premium to connect my tracking mount to their map and it has no way to connect to my SynScan mount.
  • Obvious errors!

    1
    By R. Lyu
    Three short terms out of eight cardinal points of the compass in Chinese are wrong!!!
  • Subscription

    1
    By KawaiiDaddy
    A premium app with additional subscriptions, horrible.
  • Bad programmers

    1
    By TopQuark01
    This author failed to make my paid for iPad version update because it was an old iPad. Now they want $50 ? So I can wait for the next unsupported fail mode? There is a chance it was another app but I don’t think so.
  • Buggin me

    1
    By Rapplejunk
    Paid $ but app keeps interupting for a review. F off figure out yourself whether people like based on whether they use it.
  • The absolute bestest software I actually use! Love it!

    5
    By Arthur Ambrose
    Thank you
  • No good waste of time

    1
    By qwwwasbush
    Was no goid app is not the best night sky is still better
  • Amazing app

    5
    By cosmic chickens
    Great graphics and limitless info. I tell everyone I know about this app! Thanks!

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